FESTIVALS: Bratislava IFF Spotlights Slovak Films

BRATISLAVA: Six Slovak films will screen in the Made in Slovakia section of the Bratislava IFF running 7-14 November 2014.
03-11-2014

FNE TV: Vladimer Katcharava head of 20 Steps Productions

FNE spoke to Georgian producer Vladimer Katcharava who heads the Tbilisi based production outfit 20 Steps about shooting films in Georgia and his work as a coproducer on Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s…
31-10-2014

Czech Sirena Film Coproducing Danish drama Tordenskiold

PRAGUE: Shooting of Danish feature Tordenskiold, which started on Czech locations 13 October 2014, is scheduled to wrap 18 November.
31-10-2014

The Passing Bells to premiere on TVP and BBC

WARSAW: A new TVP and BBC Worldwide co-production is an epic drama set during WWI. It will premiere this November both in UK and Poland. The show's Polish producer is…
31-10-2014

Gods Tops One Million Admissions

WARSAW: Gods, the winner of the 39th Gdynia Film Festival has racked up 1.149 m admissions within three weeks since its premiere.
31-10-2014

PRODUCTION: Šerbedžija Begins Shooting The Liberation of Skopje

ZAGREB: The Macedonian-Croatian-Finnish coproduction The Liberation of Skopje, the first feature directed by the Croatian-born Hollywood star Rade Šerbedžija (Mission Impossible II, Eyes Wide Shut, Before the Rain), started principal…
31-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Nine Films Compete in Bratislava

BRATISLAVA: A Czech film and a Slovak-Czech coproduction are among the films screening in the 16th Bratislava IFF competition of first and second films.
31-10-2014

CME Announces Continued Revenue Growth

PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported another quarter of rising revenues, with 2014 quarter three net revenues up 7 percent over 2013, at 140m USD.
31-10-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator

CEE documentary filmmakers screen their films at Leipzig's DOK.Incubator before their releases.
31-10-2014

Skoric Takes Over as Chair of the Croatian Film Directors Guild

ZAGREB: Outgoing chair Antonio Nuić hands over the reins of the Croatian Film Directors’ Guild to young film director Irena Škorić following the Board’s election on Monday, 29 October 2014.
30-10-2014

New Offices for Malta Film Commission

KALKARA: The Malta Film Commission, in the midst of one of Malta’s busiest film production years, announced its relocation to new offices at the Mediterranean Film Studios.
30-10-2014

Freeman Distribution Cuts Deal with Lionsgate/Summit

BUCHAREST: Romania's newest distribution company Freeman Distribution has become the official distributor of Lionsgate/Summit in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech and Slovakia.
30-10-2014

French Period Drama Marguerite Shooting in Prague

PRAGUE: The Czech Republic stands in for Paris in Marguerite, a French period film set in the 1920‘s. The drama about a tone deaf opera singer is directed by Xavier…
30-10-2014

Film Incentives Boost International Productions Shooting in Croatia

ZAGREB: Macedonian director Mitko Panov’s Wait for Me/Čekaj me, which wrapped shooting in Croatia on 18 October 2014, is the eighth international project benefitting from the film incentives scheme provided…
29-10-2014

FESTIVALS: France Takes Top Prize at Jihlava IDFF

JIHLAVA: French documentary director Anna Roussillon won the Opus Bonum competition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival for I Am the People (Je Suis le Peuple).
29-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Black Nights Baltic Competition Announced

TALLINN: Films from Estonia, Latvia, Poland and the Czech Republic are among the ten films selected for the Tridens Baltic Sea and Nordic debut film award at the 18th Black…
29-10-2014

Malta Invests in Training for Film Crews

VALETTA: The Malta Film Commission (MFC) is partnering with British firm Peachy on a training programme for more than 100 film crew workers.
29-10-2014

Thirteen Films Head to Connecting Cottbus 2014

COTTBUS: Two film projects from Hungary, along with films from Estonia, Georgia, Poland, and Romania, are among the thirteen films that made the cut for the coveted pitching slots at…
29-10-2014

GRANTS: Estonian Grants for 2014

TALLINN: Estonia has awarded 1.4m EUR in grants to seven Estonian films and two international coproductions in 2014.
28-10-2014

Spotlight on Slovak Film

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Film Instutute has organised a special panorama of Slovak film to be presented at the Molodist IFF (25 October-2 November 2014) in Kiev.
28-10-2014